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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    slops example sentences

    slops


    1. The bottle spun off the tray and skittered across the floor of my cell, coming to rest against the back wall by the slops bucket


    2. congealing with slops of water


    3. and awash with slops


    4. still come to gorge themselves on the never emptying slops in his


    5. and someone tossed out a bucket of slops into the street,


    6. worse than the slops buckets in the Thallia’s hold on the hottest day


    7. But he seemed to enjoy every minute of it, slipping and sliding on the slops on the floor and licking the beer of his arms and throwing himself around in a wild frenzy, while his friends, friends!, clapped and jeered and sang and shouted and danced, danced!, bumping and pulling and shoving until all ended in a drunken heap on the floor


    8. We nodded, went inside, checked out the dirty planks that served for a bench, the bucket of slops, the greasy crates standing in for cupboards, the grime-streaked fridge and the shaky, plastic-covered table littered with meals past


    9. uniforms and how they’re not spending enough at the slops or their shoes are dirty and so on


    10. He ambled Dollard, bulky slops, before them (hold that fellow with the: hold him now) into the saloon

    11. Now and then, as I’ve said, I was able to fight off a thug with my encyclopedia of unconventional weapons, such as a clarinet, an oboe, and a trombone (a confrontation in a musical-instrument shop), three buckets full of pig slops (not in a musical-instrument shop), a wet mop, coconuts, wasp spray, and once in fact with a twelve-volume encyclopedia


    12. conversation? Well, far be it from me to keep a pair of willing hands from laboring for “Do you indeed, my ministering angel? Then lice and slops are preferable to my Our Glorious Cause


    13. I CAN GIVE a speech when I have to, but I’d rather be on slops for a week than face the media in a formal setting


    14. Said he: That cry is the first cry of Christ at his birth, mixed with the dire yell of Lucifer churned out of Heaven, and spilled in fiery muck down the landslide slops of Hell!'


    15. Said he: “That cry is the first cry of Christ at his birth, mixed with the dire yell of Lucifer churned out of Heaven and spilled in fiery muck down the landslide slops of Hell!”


    16. It all seemed to her a far simpler matter: all that was needed, as Marya Philimonovna had explained, was to give Brindle and Whitebreast more food and drink, and not to let the cook carry all the kitchen slops to the laundry maid's cow


    17. But next morning they would get up at dawn, as usual, sweep out the rooms with a birch-broom, empty the slops, and clean up after lodgers


    18. She says, ‘Much need have I to carry out the slops for the scurvy beggars


    19. And we here, washed and clothed, having left the slops in our bedrooms to be cleaned up by slaves, eat and drink and discuss Schumann and Chopin and which of them moves us most or best cures our ennui? That is what I was thinking when I passed you, so I have spoken


    20. A man who employs ten servants in livery, coachmen and cooks, who has pictures and pianos, must certainly regard as strange and even ridiculous the simple preliminary duty of, I do not say a good man, but of every man who is not an animal, to hew that wood with which his food is cooked and by which he is warmed; to clean those boots in which he carelessly stepped into the mud; to bring that water with which he keeps himself clean; and to carry away those slops in which he has washed himself

    21. We are all brothers—and yet every morning a brother or a sister must empty the bedroom slops for me


    22. We inquired, said he, what were their emoluments, other than those allowed by law? Answer: "they arise from a certain percentage upon slops detailed to the seamen


    23. , to inform country gentlemen that, by slops, are meant ready-made clothing, &c


    24. It had been understood that large sums of money were advanced to these Pursers, who laid it out in slops, which they retailed to the seamen at an advance, in some instances, of twenty per cent


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    Synonyms for "slops"

    slops pigswill pigwash slop swill

    "slops" definitions

    wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk


    cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)